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NSA phone monitoring

The president allegedly allowed US intelligence to listen to calls from the German Chancellor's mobile phone after he was briefed on the operation by Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), in 2010.

"Mr Obama's European allies will now ask him to say what he personally knew about the NSA's global eavesdropping operation and its targeting of world leaders, including those from friendly states. The White House declined to comment on the German media reports."

Reads that they are going to ask him if he knew. Also note in the same story that the NSA spying on Merkell began in 2002! The White House has already denied knowing of the NSA's listening to foreign leaders phone calls. It is a matter of whether we can believe that Bush and Obama didn't know.

As a matter of protocal, both Bush and Obama are not made aware of the actions of many of the security operations. That way they can both deny knowing about it if becomes public. Which thanks to Mr Snowden, it has.

Last edited by Franco; 10-28-2013 at 09:41 PM.

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Should have offered Snowden immunity to shut the hell up. Intelligence is one of those things you can't have enough of. Being as there are no rules in spying, I don't think we did anything wrong. This is why we shouldn't be outsourcing our national intelligence work in the first place!

Ole and Sven are quietly sitting in a boat fishing, chewing and drinking beer when suddenly Sven says, 'I think I'm gonna divorce my wife - she ain't spoke to me in over 2 months.' Ole sips his beer and says, 'Better think it over...women like that are hard to find.'

Yes, Franco, this stuff has been going on since 2002 ... so one would have to agree that the POTUS should have known about it ... both Bush and Obama.

We tread a fine line between getting the intelligence we need to keep our country safe, and intruding on our Constitution. It takes a lot of wisdom to know where the "red line" is crossed.

That said, I'm sure that other countries are doing the same thing to us, probably even Germany and the UK who have made the most of this latest revelation. Plus, I'm sure that everybody knows the other guys are doing the same thing ... including Obama who professes to be ignorant of same.

Henlee, I can understand not wanting to outsource our intelligence work ... yet, the evidence of the govt trying to be the "manager" of O-care's website, we can also question whether in-sourcing would necessarily be much of an improvement.

It might be in order to review how security clearances are given out ... both to contractors' employees and govt employees.

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Should have offered Snowden immunity to shut the hell up. Intelligence is one of those things you can't have enough of. Being as there are no rules in spying, I don't think we did anything wrong. This is why we shouldn't be outsourcing our national intelligence work in the first place!

Not only are we listening in on Merkell private phone calls, our Federal Reserve is refusing to allow them to repatriate their gold! They thought they had their gold stored in a safe place! But, a funny thing happened on their way to the bank. It's not there anymore

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge